Floppy device names?
Bart Silverstrim
bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Fri Feb 15 15:49:41 UTC 2008
stan wrote:
> I need to transfer data to/from external machines, and we historically do
> this via using tar to write to floppies. I've untared this stuff on FreeBSD
> for years, but am having a bit of an issue getting this to work on Ubuntu
> (7.10). I have a USB floppy plugged in to the Ubuntu machine, what device(s)
> should I see this as?
Just after you plug in the device, you may get the name if you run
"dmesg" and see what the usb-related discovery messages say.
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